Problems with Medicaid and other charge calls

Cracker's trouble with Medicaid calls reminds me of the problems in Tampa.

First of all United and Yellow have vans they own together that take a large percentage of the Medicaid calls, ca$h flow does make for some strange bedfellows.

What's left over is bid out over the air, sometimes as a Medicaid call sometimes its not, but always at 15% off the meter big surprise.

My question is who gets the 15%? Could be Medicaid, could be the cab co that dispatched it or could be the jointly owned co that owns all those vans.

One way or another its not the drivers and that's one of the reasons drivers don't like the call's, why else how about all the no shows.

I got sent to pick up a woman in the 2100 block of Spruce more then 30 times, but for many reasons I never ever got her in the cab. One day it was raining, another she had no baby sitter, (do you see a trend here) after a while I would tell the channel 1 dispatcher it was a no show as he was giving it to me. But I had to burn gas and time and confirm the no show.

OK we have worn out Medicaid for a while.

How about credit cards, they pay United 5% for all calls we take someone's charge card in payment for a ride, first of all United only gets charged 1 1/2 %.

Guess who gets the 3 1/2 %, yeah United does, who has all the risks oh yeah that would be the driver, just as they do for getting robbed or beaten.

Corporate accounts are another opportunity for the driver to get ripped off, just for an example Tampa General Hospital used to get 20% off and about 8+ years it dropped to 10%, how or why I don't know, do you.

Tom UC 123